Yvonne Penney is a native of Toronto, and claims she’s old enough to have watched the original run of Star Trek. After living for two years in the much warmer climes of San Diego, California and Yuma, Arizona, she returned to Toronto in 1978, and discovered fandom and SF cons.

After years working on the successful Toronto in 2003Worldcon bid, Yvonne returned to one of her first loves, space and aviation, and she has been involved with The Planetary Society, the Canadian Space Society, the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, and the Mars Society